Contains various stationary, letterheads, and business cards from Janco's business endeavors, including Pearlson & Iancu Bros. and Marcel & Jules Janco. Also includes Mizzi Packer's father: Avram Packer's business card.
The fonds contains materials pertaining to the life of Jules Janco, with an emphasis on his architectural career. This includes transcripts, diplomas, and letters of recommendation issued from the architecture school he attended along with his brothers in Switzerland, letterheads and business cards from Janco's professional collaboration with his brother Marcel Janco, professional notes and memos, a number of architectural sketches of homes and buildings in Romania and Palestine, and photographs and brochures pertaining to architectural projects Jules Janco was involved in--most prominently, Ștrandul Kiseleff (the Strand) and the Bucegi Sanatorium. A number of work-related objects, including scissors, a miniature magnifying glass, and spectacles, are also found in the fonds.
Personal records from Janco's childhood and young adulthood in Romania, through to his marriage to Mizzi Packer and emigration to Canada, can also be found in the fonds. This includes birth, marriage, and death certificates, citizenship records and passports, some personal and financial correspondence, and a number of coupon bonds issued to Janco and his father, Hermann Zvi Iancu. A large number of photographs document family trips around Romania and to France; some photographs from Janco's school days, including scenes with peers, are in the fonds.
Some research that Janco's own family members conducted about his life is also contained within the fonds. This includes a map of Bucharest demarcating sites of Janco's projects, a series of VHS tapes in which the audio from an interview with Janco is overlaid onto documentary footage.
Janco, Jules, 1896 -1985Contains later photographs of Mizzi Packer and Jules Janco with friends and family.
Contains official marriage registrations, marriage announcement, invitation, dowry, and marriage contract for Mizzi Packer and Jules Janco's wedding.
Contains photographs from Mizzi Packer and Jules Janco's wedding.
File consists of one CD with two video files (.VOB) depicting home videos from the Janco family.
Contains Janco's 1980 Canadian passport, several loose passport pages featuring Mizzi Packer and Jules Janco, Janco's Canadian immigration, then citizenship certificate and card, an affidavit in lieu of a passport granting the Janco family permission to travel to Palestine, and a Bucharest-issued travel card with photograph from 1925.
Contains a Gregorian pocket calendar (1829) featuring a collection of song lyrics, as well as a teal velvet "album amicorum" (poetry/friendship book) with Mizzi Packer's signature on front inside cover, comprised of inscribed poems, notes, images and motifs, a pressed flower, and very likely a note from the Queen of Romania (1918-1927).
Contains photographs of Jules Janco and Mizzi Packer with friends and family, on various trips, at dinners, and at home. Includes one page of three photocopied photographs of family members and friends beach-side.
Contains articles and photographs from the Strand (Ștrandul Kiseleff), an outdoor sports and swimming complex designed by the Janco brothers in the late 1920s. Photographs feature friends and family (including Mizzi Packer and George Janco) posed along the Strand, various exterior views of the grounds, as well as King Charles II of Romania greeting Jules Janco at its 1929 inauguration. Some newspaper clippings are annotated to identify Mizzi Packer and other friends. One newspaper article features Miss Universe and Miss Romania at the Strand, hosting a beauty pageant.